Haskell News from Haskell, Oklahoma • 3

THE HASKELL NEWS MRS ELIZABETH TYLER GEORGE RAIL RATES TO DROP WITH WAGES SENATOR KNOX SUDDENLY DIES Linen skirts are awdy short Now I think wrong And Mama says that Faultless Starch Will make them wear quite MEET REDUCTION IN LABOR WITH FREIGHT DECREASE IS PLANNED APOPLEXY IS THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH IT IS STATED fST AfiSCH IN PUBLIC LIFE FOR 20 YEARS NEW PROrosm NOW READY A Special Committee Of Rail Road Executives Confer On the New Proposed Plans At Washington Both Upper and Lower Houses Adjourned For One Day In Honor Of Man Who Drafted Peace Bill Shlnlng-up Days Are Here WE (POL BSD-0 Ho Shino to Wonderful 1 Land of Prosperity George McGinty secretary and executive officer of the interstate commerce commission who eigne his name to no tees than 5000 communications emerging from the commission every day Twenty years or so ago he ar rived in Atlanta from the country ob-taininn a lob as clerk In a railroad of-floa SOLDIER SHOOTS DESERTERS Washington The wheels of government in Wai hingti slowed clown as a mark of respect to the memory of Senator Philandei Knox whose sudden death cast a gloom over tha capital Apoplexy Cause Of Death The immediate cause of death was a stroke of apoplexy Senator Knox had left the capital late in the afternoon taken a short motor ride and returned to his honnj tor dinner While preparing for dinner he was stricken He died while medical aid was being summoned with only Mrs Knox and his private secretary present The senate met And adjourned out of reaped to the distinguished Pennsylvanian A number of important hearings sheudeled to go on were postponed President Harding commenting on the sudden death of Senator Knox said: "The shocking sudden death of Senator Knox brings a very great loss to the country His was a distinctly Mrs Elisabeth Tyler Atlanta Ga the only woman member of ths Ku-Klux Klan and one of its highest officers who offered her resignation along with that of Clarke also an officer following charges mad againct them in newspaper articles on the Ku-Klux Klan TAX YIELD IS NOT CUT Increase in Distilled Spirit Section Alone Makes up 42 Million Dollars WAS FORCED TO LEAVE CAMP WITH CAPTORS Waited Until Night Brought Sleep To the Deserters Then Tried To Return Them offers to home seekers opportunities that cannot be secured elsewhere The thousands of farmers from the United States who have accepted Can adVa generous offer to settle on FREE homesteads or buy farm land in her provinces have been well repaid by bountiful crops There is still avail able on easy terms Fertile Land at $15 to $30 an Acre similar to that which through many years has yielded from 20 to 45 bushels of wheat to the oats barley and flax also in great abundance while raising horses cattle sheep and hogs is equally profitable Hundreds of farm era in western Canada have raised crops in a single season worth more than the whole cost of their land With such success comes prosperity independence Rood homes and all the comforts and conveniences which make life worth living Farm Gardens Poultry Dairying are sources of income second only to grain growing and stock raising Attractive cli mate good neighbors churches schools good markets railroad facitities rural telephone etc For illuitretfd literature maps description of fans opportunities in Manitoba tteekstchewnn Alberta and British Columbia reduced railway rates etc writs HEWITT 2012 Main Si Kansas City Mo AwtHorlMS Hn1 Dpf ef tmfflltntkm and Colonisation Dominion of Canoda Chicago A proposal to meet all future reductions in the wages of rail-load employes with corresponding decreases in lailioad freight lutes is to be presented to the association of railway executives at its meeting here It Was announced The proposition is to be submitted by a special committee of railroad officials which last week conferred with government officials at Washington It was stated To effect a reduction of freight rates and at the same time maintain present revenues for the railroads the plan announced was foamulated Increased business brought about by lower freight rates is expected to provide the increased revenue necessary for the inilroads to operate at a fair profit it was stated The plan if approved by the executive will be piesented in an official announcement by executive officials it is expected Those in close touch with the situation pointed out that even if the proposal became effective at once some time will elapse before freight rates could be reduced To decrease rates the railroads would have to go through almost as much formality as to raise them it was stated Conference Is Necessary A conference with employees would first be necessary and if the employees refused to accept- the proposed reductions the case would then be placed before the railroad labor board under present provisions If the railroad labor board authorized the requested reduction in wages the interstate commerce commission would then be required to pass on a proposal to reduce freight rates No overtures for a meeting of railroad executives with railroad union leaders here considering a strike vote had been made by either side so fgr as could be learned Railroad officials have stated repeatedly in the past that a reduction of freight rates is impossible without a corresponding reduction in operating costs They hare pointed out that while a decrease in commodity prices has made a reduction of freight rates desirable railroad earnings have not Justified the decrease even with the potential increase in business taken into consideration While an improvement has been noted since July 1 when the wage cut authorized by the railroad labor board became effective officials assert that this has not reduced operating costs sufficiently to allow a reduction in freight rates under present conditions GIRL OF TODAY INDEPENDENT Tin Taplrn pygmy people are cultivators tolmeco Cuticura Soothes Itching Scalp On retiring gently rub spots of dandruff and Itching with Cuticura Ointment Next morning shumpoo with Cuticura Soap and hot wuter Mtke them your everyday toilet preparations and have clear skin anil soft white hands Advertisement Cow Has Six Teats A farmer at Riding Mountain Munl-lobn writes that he has a cow with -si teats and milk Is obtained from I Item all He says that wheretrs it Is not uncommon for a cow to have more than four teats lie has never heard of getting milk from more than four Is tills a record? Washington Changes in the pending tax revision bill agreed upon by republican leaders will result in no alternation in the total yield according to the treasury estimates made public by Chairman Penrose of the senate finance committee The loss through repeals proposed was placed at $197000000 and the gains through net taxes at the same figures The losses are estimated as follows Repeal of transportation taxes on freight express passengers pullman and oil pipe lino $145000000 Repeals of taxes on sporting goods $2000000 chewing gum $1000000 photagraphic apparatus and accessories $200000 Candy selling in excess of 40 cents per pound $8000000 electric fans $300000 thermos bottles etc $175-000 smokers articles $150000000 articles made or fur $90000000 toilet soaps and soap powders $2000-000 and tooth and mouth washes dentrlflces tooth pastes and toilet powders $3000000 Reduction of tax on sculpture painting statuary art procleains and bronzes from 10 to 5 percent $400-000 Repeal of 5 percent tax on motion picture films leased $5600000 Repeal of stamp taxes on parcel post packages $20000000 The increases were given as follows: of capital stock tax $750(0000 Income surtax increase $50000000 Elimination of $2000 exemption to corporations with incomes in eveess Of $3000000 Increase in tax on distilled spirits $42010000 German Marks Hit Bottom New York German exchange dropped to the lowest quotation in its history 70-1-2 cents for 100 marks The previous low record made last week was 78 cents after which the price rallied to more than 82 Demoralization which extended to other foreign exchanges including British and French remittances Lawton Okla Private Brown rode Into the reservation recently with the dead bodies of McCrutcheran and Roy Hughes casuals brought to Fort Sill as deserters He finished that work by writing a record for the historic service log at the post that will live forever Brown was posted military guard over McCrutchun and Hughes assigned to cleanup work that evening guard became lax and the deserters jumped on him and took his automatic out of his belt threw the cartridges away searched him for more ammunition and to avoid detection forced Brown to accompany them on "French That night the trio pitched camp twenty miles east of Lawton Like three budies they huddled up against a fire to beat the brisk October air and soon they fell aBieep McCrutcb-an and Hughes Private Brown feigned sleep His captors snored at lust then Brown stealthily recovered his 45 from the sleeping deserter He quickly filled the gun with the seven shells that he had secreted in an undershirt pocket for just such an emergency A gun in the ribs is a mean sort of an alarm clock McCrutchun and I Hughes objected to being routed out I to get ready to go back to the Private Brown said pointing his gun at the prisoners McCrutchun laughed and started to move out of the circle of the camp light snapped Private Brown McCrutchun moved on away or "Shoot said McCrutchan who thought he had taken last bullet Then McCrutchan started to run The gun barked four times and McCrutchan dropped dead The other deserter Hughes well awake by now had leaped for Private back us he was checking McCrutchan but he whs fighting against odds right orders and an honorable service record it took the seventh of the seven shells to finish Hughes but from the campfire built by I lie three niusket-ers the puth turned backward to the post and honor for Private Brown to death and dishonor for the two who failed to find a pocket in an Modern Young Woman Has No Need of Chaperon Says Kathleen Norris the Novelist "Kvon in my memory p'rls never were allowed to enter restaurants without a male escort of their own family or a maid nor did one dream of the theater unless similarly guarded on boats and trains the watch-fill elder woman was never absent And still In Latin countries schoolgirls are accompanied to and fro with scrupulous care our young women go their enormously varied iiml constantly n-creasing ways In casual freedom nnd writes Kathleen Norris In McCall's few weeks ago noticed in tlie colossal dining room of big department store that the hills of fare were actually planned to please the delicate sex the world is changing to meet her ns she ehnnges to meet tin- world and as it would he palpably absurd to have her traveling downtown In tlie public cars earning her living in some lilg office lunching nlcnc amid a thousand nit-u and then requiring the services of a chaperon for any other occasion she Is beginning to dispense with the chaperon altogether The present state of af-fnlrs would not shock tlie retiring guardian of maidenly modesty and morals because she would he aimply and utterly unable to grasp It" Knocking the Doctors There Is an official in Washington who likes nothing better than a lling at the medieal profession He was afforded an opportunity not long ago ut a public dinner to chaff the medicos and he did it in this wise: may he divided into two classes the radicals who kill you and the conservatives who let you i I The Ruling Passion A number of darkies were unloading a boat with a cargo of anvils for which they received 2 cents fur each anvil carried ashore Cnpt'n if I enrry two anvils at a time how much do I git? Captain Two cents each hoy As Jose started down the plank It luoke and be fell Into the river with the two heavy anvils When he came to the surface he cried: if you-all don't throw me a rope gwin' drop these here anvils ini' lose mail fo' cent s'" Judge Selfish people are never Relflsh enough lo keep their troubles to BIG DIRIGIBLE IS WRECKED Three Men Aboard When it Break Away All Escape Newport News Va A big dirigible from Langley field was wrecked in Hampton roads and probably will be a total loss Three men were aboard the airship when she left the flying fetation Spectators reported that two men jumped as the craft descended almost to the earth before leaving land Another was seen aboard as the wind caught the bag and dashed it along the surface of the water Murine men at Old Point inter reported that the lone man on the craft was taken off bv Captain Watson and the crew of a harbor tut The bag Still partly filled with gas was whipped out to sea by a strong wind Few of us ever get old enough to know better Injured in Grandstand Fall Decatur 111 Forty-five persons were injured five seriously when ten sections of tlie grandstand seats erected foi the American Legion state convention parade collapsed Just before the parade passed high place among the foremost statesmen of American He was no less beloved as a companion than he was respected in his signal public For twenty years Senator Knox has been one of the most noted and active figures in Washington political life first as attorney general under McKinley and Roosevelt later secretary of state under Taft and in two terms in the senate and his sudden and unexpected death came as a severe shock to the capital generally Republicans and democrats alike mourned his passing as taking away from public life one of its most noted and active figures The shock was ail the greater because of its suddenness The Pennsylvania senator had returned only recently from a vacation abroad Upon his return to Washington ho told his colleagues that he was fine" except for a little fatigue from the ocean flip He plunged Into his senatorial work with all his usual vigor howhver and was preparing for the busy session ahead when he was stricken at his homo McAlester Cats Sewer Plans Plans and speciflctions for sewer extensions and sewage disposal plants to be constructed in McAlester have been received from the engineers and adopted by the city council The plans comprise a complete rehabilitation of the old sewago system and two complete disposal plants one to be located northeast of the city and the other southwest It is expected that the entire $50000 bond issue voted for the purpose last May will be used in the construction of the plants FOCH TO SEE MOST OF Arkansas Prison Probe In Tine Bluff The penitentiary commission was vindicated of charges of cruelty to convicts and mismunagmont of the Btate farm at Tucker in report filed with Circuit Judge Sorrels following two weeks of investigation General's Trip Over Country May Cover 2000 Miles 1 raris Ma -ithal Foeh would be compelled to travel more than 20000 miles and virit nearly every state in the Amerlcar union If he should accept all the invitations he has received from the I 'tilted States since It was announ ed that he would cross the Atlantic this fail Friends who call upon the marshal are shown a stack of Invitations more than a foot thick which he has received There are hundreds of them greetings from governors of various stAtes mayors of many cltleB public bodies of every ort and private messages from prominent residents of the United States To Continue Road Work Sulphur By a two to one vote 300 Murray county citizens in session at the courthouse instructed county commissioners to proceed with the sale of Ihe $225000 worth of bonds voted last spring for building and Improving roads over the county Recommendations also were made at the meeting that another election be held in the near futqre to vole additional funds for road improvement RULING IS SOUGHT Attorney General of Texas Asked By Grand Jury For Deoision Austin Texas The Travis county giand Jury through County Attorney John Hornsby asked the attorney general's clepnrtmen't lor an opinion as to whether it Is unlawful to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan or of tlie local organization of the klan The grand Jury requests ruling on a number of questions including "is it unlawful for a member of tlie klan to be present at a meeting which a threatening notice- is authorized to be The request for an opinion was designed to definitely establish the status of the Ku Klux Klan membership In Texas an opinion by the department being final Japanese Rush Great War Ships Tokio Fears that the double-eight battleship program of Japan would i be seriously hel I up by the recent dockyards striker of Kobe have been dispelled by a recent semi-official statement of the government Tokio was warned when the strikes were at their worst that the Mitsubishi and Kawasaki dockyards where were building parts of the great new fleet oould not be held responsible for the delay in the completion of the vessels proved the strikes were not settled Immediately This is the start of a better day satisfying comfort and cheer in a breakfast cup of Postum and no disturbing element to irritate nerves or digestion and leave mental energy lagging before tho day is done Thousands of former coffee users have found that Postum meets every demand for a delicious table beverage and brings steadier nerves clearer mind better health As many cups as you like with any meal no after-regret Postum comes in two format Instant Postum (In tins) mads Instantly in th cup by th addition of boiling water Postum Cirul (in packages of larger bulk for thoa who prefer to make th drink while tbs meal is being prepared) mad by boiling for 20 minutes a for Postum Sold by ell grocers Dats For Rail Strika la 8et Chicago Railroads of the country will be notified that un less they open negotiations for fresh wage agreements by October 30 strikes will be called by the big rail unions according to a decision reached at a conference of union chiefs Unemployment Meet Finished Washington The National Confer-snee of the Unemployment after creating a standing committee with authority to re-con vena the full conference at any time concluded its deliberations and adjourned sine die France Choose Delegatee Paris The Cabinet officially completed the French delegation to the Washington conference on limitation of armaments and Far Eastern questions Firmer Premier Vlvianl will bs seoond to Prsmlrs Briond Cotton It Ginned Rapidly Washington The regular reports on cotton ginned In the period ending October 18 will be accompanied by a special statement from the census bureau that a large proportion of the cotton crop for this year Is already Senator Harris of Ooorgla announced after a conference with officials of the bureau That statement Senator Harris said would bring pubilo attention to the low estimated crop "for comparison with an expected abnormal amount of eottoa ginned Lloyd Georg Plans to Attond Parley Prime Minister Lloyd Qeorgo la preparing to go to Washington to attend the impending conference on limitation of armaments and far eastern questions.